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Chamber, Realtors and builders warn property-tax overhaul and rising impact fees could strain local services and housing affordability
Summary
Bay County business groups and builders urged legislators to protect local revenue streams and fund affordable housing; they warned proposals to eliminate property taxes or sharply change impact fees and special-assessments could reduce funds for police, fire and infrastructure.
Alan Armstrong and Al McCambrey, leaders with the Bay County Chamber of Commerce, told the delegation the chamber's top legislative priorities are affordable housing, childcare, property-tax policy and protecting the Jones Act because of its link to local shipbuilding jobs.
A representative of the Central Panhandle Association of Realtors thanked legislators for elimination of the business rent tax and for programs such as Hometown Heroes, My Safe Florida…
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